Believers in Strong AI believe (to put it very simply) that if computers behave in certain ways, then they have intelligence and even m...

The Mind as a Computer: Syntax and Semantics The first thing you can say (in accordance with John Searle) is that when a c...

  The important distinction that must be made between Jean-Baptiste Lamarck's position and Charles Darwin's is that the forme...

It's often asked whether or not Kurt Gödel's theorems can be applied outside mathematics. John Horgan certainly applies them to...

Perhaps it follows from Hilary Putnam's critique of obsessive formalism (in philosophy) that he would also have championed the use...